Frontiers of Capital brings together ethnographies exploring how cultural practices and social relations have been altered by the radical economic and technological innovations of the New Economy.

The contributors, most of whom are anthropologists, investigate changes in the practices and interactions of futures traders, Chinese entrepreneurs, residents of French housing projects, women working on Wall Street, cable television programmers, and others.

Together the essays suggest that social relations, rather than becoming less relevant in the high-tech age, have become more important than ever.

The book’s editors are Melissa S. Fisher, assistant professor of anthropology at Georgetown University and Greg Downey, lecturer in anthropology at Macquarie University.

Megan Neese is a senior manager in the Future Lab at Nissan Motor Ltd., a cross-functional team tasked with uncovering new business opportunities for the future of automotive.
In an article for EPIC, she explains how …

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How to thrive in the next economy
by John Thackara
Thames & Hudson
August 2015, 192pp
Abstract
Drawing on a lifetime of travel in search of real-world alternatives that work, I describe how communities the world over are creating a …

TV viewing (live, playback and Broadcaster VOD services) dominates the video viewing of all ages; however 16-24s have a more varied video diet, with TV accounting for two thirds of their total video viewing compared …

Almost all business leaders now acknowledge that they would love to engage in the deep learning that long-term customer observation can foster, but in practice such endeavors are methodically undermined in the fast paced corporate …

Libraries have moved from being the location for search, access and advice to playing a much smaller role within a much larger information landscape, writes a researcher of JISC, the UK charity that champion the …

Users of the dating app assess potential partners in much the same way as neanderthals did, according to anthropologist Dr. Helen Fisher, a biological anthropologist at Rutgers University.
"Tinder is nothing new," says Fisher.
"It’s just …

Far from being a panacea, small loans add to poverty and undermine people by saddling them with unsustainable debt, argues anthropologist Dr. Jason Hickel of the London School of Economics:
What’s so fascinating about the microfinance …